The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


F1rz JOHN PORTER has finished memoir of
his friend, the late General Charles p. Stone, Of
civil war and Egyptian army fame.
THE S tan of Turkey heads the list of lux
urious rulers. His personal expenses are esti-
mated at $40, 000,0 900 per annum He is thirty
eight years of age.
THERE seems to be every probability of the
speedy revival of a taste for miniature painting
on ivory without the aid of photography, says
the London World.
A MISS CUMMINGS recently introduced to
Mr.. Goings at Buffalo, and after hearing each
others name they looked Mystic for a moment
and then compromised by sitting down.
IT never rains but it pours the farm of N.Y.
ron Huskings, of Maple Grove, Mich. The
other day Mrs. Huskings gave birth to triplets,
two ewes to five lambs, and the family cat to
seven kittens
HENRY MAYHEM, the first editor of Punch. ia
dead He is the last of the little band who, on
July II, 1s41. produced the comic journal which
has now become almost a necessity In an educat-
ed Englishman's life.
JOHN S DWIGHT is one of the few survivors
of the Brook Farm Association and his memory
is full of rich recollections of Margaret Fuller,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emerson and other
gifted members of that settlement
HENRY WARD BEEcHER had his own opinion
about insane criminals. as he had about any
thing else. He said once: ga man who is sane
necessary to its accomplishment, is sane enough
to be punished"
DON PEDRO. Emperor of Brazil, is a most en-
ereetic m an when on his travels. In Paris he
rises at in the morning, and. works and
studies with the enthusiasm of young scien tifc
man on foreign tour. He takes copicus notes
all he sees and hears, and it is feared that he
may contemplate a book Of European travel.
In their personal habits Governor Hill, of
New York, and Roscoe Conkling have various
points of resemblance. They seldom touch
LIQUOR in any form; they are not fond of tobacco;
they eat sparngly. think deeply and sleep we'll
Both in fine physical condition and are able
to perform a great deal OF work in the hottest
kind of weather.
DANIEL. SPEAKER, president of the Mohawk
River Bank, at Fonda, N. Y, is robably the
oldest bank president in the country. He has
held his present position since the bank was
founded, in 1885. He is ninety years of age and
is in a very precarious state of health. He has
been blind and deaf for some years, but attended
to his duties at the bank up to a few days ago.
MRS. WILBUR F. STORY. widow of the late
tor of the Chicago Times, has been invited to
furnish oil portrait of her husband for the
House of Representatives at Washington, and
will paint it herself The litigation she is lead
ing over her husbands will has already lasted
four years and her LAWYERS fees have amounted
to SCI, 900, and the end is probably yet some
years off.
HEELS the shoes first originated with the
Persians A person of low stature regarded
object of contempt. and, therefore. the
heel the happy thought of some one of the
unfortunates. thus providing by art that which
nature denied. But, as In modern fashions, is
carried to excess, persons who were already
too tall to look well adopting them because they
were the style.
SAM JONES, the revivalst, gets $500 for three
days work, which includes nine sermons. One
of the large lecture bureaus has offered him $500
night for a course of lectures, and while at
Round Lake last summer he had offer of 800
an hour if he would leave that cam D. Getting for
another. The people of Saratoga near by offer
ed him 500 for one sermon but. according to a
friend and admirer, he is proof against all these
temptations
SAYS London Life: ga lady visitor at the hos
pital in which Buck Taylor is now recovering
from the fracture of his thigh relates that when
her visiting day came she asked to see him. She
was informed by the matron that the patient
had been SO harassed by tho constant and ire
pressible flow of female visitors of all ranks and
ages that in despair he had begged to be removed
to another ward and protected forevermore
against the invasion of these unknown and gush-
ing admirers"
JAY GOULD, Cyrus w. Field, Sidney Dillon,
Russell Sage and Alonzo B. Cornell in the busy
financial season meet and eat lunch together
every afternoon between l and o'clock, m the
Western Union Building, on Broadway. These
men represent about $500 900 000 but they al
ways eat very plain lunch at the expense of
the Western Union Company. jaw Gould sits
at the head of the table No liquors served,
and after lunch one of the little group fingers
at the table to smoke a cigar.
TEE death of r. NJ. Il. Hunter, of Virginia.
who was a member of the confederate Cabinet,
leaves but three of the entire number still sur
vving. There were fourteen in all who held
Cabinet positions under Mr.. Davis during the
existence of the confederate government There
survive congressman Reagan. who Post